Artists · Global Music Power

PJ Harvey

Also credited as Polly Jean Harvey

Charting Feb 22, 1992 → Oct 2, 2004 · 30 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 30 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 30 wk Global Music Power · 30 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 0.07%; week of Jan 23, 1999
Career Power: 6; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 1; November 1994 – October 1995
Peak Five Years: 3; February 1994 – January 1999
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 30; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.48%; week of Sep 19, 1998
Comebacks: 0; none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Global Music Power

16 records · 6 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
A Perfect Day EliseApple Music	#25	2	September 1998 – September 1998	0.6	0.6
The Letter	#28	2	May 2004 – May 2004	0.6	0.6
50FT QueenieApple Music	#27	2	April 1993 – May 1993	0.6	0.6
C'Mon BillyApple Music	#29	2	July 1995 – July 1995	0.6	0.6
The Wind	#29	2	January 1999 – January 1999	0.6	0.6
Send His Love to MeApple Music	#34	2	October 1995 – October 1995	0.5	0.5
You Come Through	#41	2	July 2004 – August 2004	0.4	0.4
Down by the WaterApple Music	#38	2	February 1995 – February 1995	0.4	0.4
Man-SizeApple Music	#42	2	July 1993 – July 1993	0.4	0.4
Good Fortune	#41	2	November 2000 – November 2000	0.4	0.4
A Place Called Home	#43	2	March 2001 – March 2001	0.4	0.4
This Is Love	#41	2	October 2001 – October 2001	0.3	0.3
Shame	#45	2	September 2004 – October 2004	0.3	0.3
Henry Leewith Nick CaveApple Music	#36	2	March 1996 – March 1996	0.2	0.4
Sheela-Na-Gig	#69	1	February 1992	0.1	0.1
That Was My Veilwith John Parish	#75	1	November 1996	0.0	0.1

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At their peak

PJ Harvey's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from November 1994 to October 1995. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.